Thursday, January 12, 2017

Last surgery SCHEDULED!

I saw my plastic surgeon last week to follow up on my exchange surgery and we scheduled the (hopefully) final surgery!  I'll be going in March 3 for the fat grafting surgery.  I've heard it's not too bad to heal from, it just feels like you did a really hard workout.  I hope that's correct!  The surgeon will be taking the fat from my stomach, so I finally will have a flat stomach again.  Believe it or not, even after all 5 kids my stomach was pretty flat, but chemo did me in.

In other news, this popped up yesterday when I updated my weight in the fitbit app:


Pretty cool, eh?  It definitely took longer than I'd hoped, but for the first time in as long as I can remember, I didn't gain weight over the holidays!  In fact, I lost weight.  I'm starting that boot camp challenge again next week so you'll be sure to see my early morning check ins on facebook.  I'll have to weigh in/do measurements about 9 days early because my surgery happens before the end of the challenge. Although he's returning the fat he's taking out to my body, it'll change my measurements.  So hopefully I can kill it between now and March 2.  

I've been off of sugar since Dec 31st and have been doing keto since Dec 27 (I had a slip up on New Year's Eve and had some ice cream).  If you don't know me well, this is quite the feat.  I'm feeling great and loving the keto way of life.  

I'm coming up on a lot of first anniversaries.  I'm going to be honest, sometimes it seemed like I'd never be looking back on my treatment.  It feels good to look forward to a happy healthy year instead of one fighting cancer.  

I see my oncologist tomorrow for my 2nd checkup since finishing chemo.  I'm going to talk to her about some issues I'm still having- like forgetfulness & a few side effects of the Tamoxifen.  I also think that chemo made me ADD.  I've always been a bit of an unorganized mess, but I'm a complete mess now.  I'm not sure there's much she can do for me, but dang, I need some help haha.

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